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A02412 Summary:

BILL NOA02412
 
SAME ASSAME AS S03216
 
SPONSORGallagher
 
COSPNSRFall, Beephan, Seawright
 
MLTSPNSR
 
Add §396-uu, Gen Bus L
 
Requires restaurants and persons authorized to sell alcoholic beverages to have tangible menus available upon request.
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A02412 Actions:

BILL NOA02412
 
01/16/2025referred to consumer affairs and protection
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A02412 Memo:

NEW YORK STATE ASSEMBLY
MEMORANDUM IN SUPPORT OF LEGISLATION
submitted in accordance with Assembly Rule III, Sec 1(f)
 
BILL NUMBER: A2412
 
SPONSOR: Gallagher
  TITLE OF BILL: An act to amend the general business law, in relation to requiring restaurants and persons authorized to sell alcoholic beverages to have tangible menus available upon request   PURPOSE OR GENERAL IDEA OF BILL: To ensure that restaurants and bars provide tangible menus to customers upon request.   SUMMARY OF SPECIFIC PROVISIONS: Section one amends the general business law to create a new section, 396-uu, which provides that a restaurant or a business authorized to serve alcoholic beverages must provide a tangible menu communicating essential information about the beverages and food for sale if a custom- er requests such a menu. Section two is the effective date.   JUSTIFICATION: Since the beginning of the COVID-19 pandemic, many restaurants, bars, and other businesses have switched from using printed or laminated menus to "QR codes" or websites accessible on smart phones. While the ability to view a menu online has certain benefits, it renders the menu inacces- sible to individuals who do not have a smart phone, whose smart phone is low on battery or dead, who may be forced to pay fees to use data to access such a menu online, or who are not proficient in using QR codes or digital ordering platforms. Any customer should have the right to request a tangible, legible copy of a menu that communicates essential information about prices and products available.   PRIOR LEGISLATIVE HISTORY: A4024 (2023), ordered to third reading.   FISCAL IMPLICATIONS FOR STATE AND LOCAL GOVERNMENTS: None.   EFFECTIVE DATE: This bill is effective thirty days after it shall have become law.
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A02412 Text:



 
                STATE OF NEW YORK
        ________________________________________________________________________
 
                                          2412
 
                               2025-2026 Regular Sessions
 
                   IN ASSEMBLY
 
                                    January 16, 2025
                                       ___________
 
        Introduced  by M. of A. GALLAGHER, FALL, BEEPHAN, SEAWRIGHT -- read once
          and referred to the Committee on Consumer Affairs and Protection
 
        AN ACT to amend the general  business  law,  in  relation  to  requiring
          restaurants and persons authorized to sell alcoholic beverages to have
          tangible menus available upon request

          The  People of the State of New York, represented in Senate and Assem-
        bly, do enact as follows:
 
     1    Section 1. The general business law is amended by adding a new section
     2  396-uu to read as follows:
     3    § 396-uu. Tangible menus. Any  restaurant  or  licensee  possessing  a
     4  retail  license for on-premises consumption subject to the provisions of
     5  section one hundred six of the alcoholic  beverage  control  law  shall,
     6  upon  the  request  of  a customer, make available a printed or tangible
     7  menu communicating essential information about the  beverages  and  food
     8  available  for  sale  by  such restaurant or licensee.   A tangible menu
     9  shall include legible signage posted on a wall or in another conspicuous
    10  location.   Under no circumstances shall  the  only  menu  available  be
    11  accessible exclusively through digital or online means. For the purposes
    12  of  this  section,  the terms "restaurant" and "licensee" shall have the
    13  same meaning as those terms are defined in section three of the alcohol-
    14  ic beverage control law.
    15    § 2. This act shall take effect on the thirtieth day  after  it  shall
    16  have become a law.
 
 
 
         EXPLANATION--Matter in italics (underscored) is new; matter in brackets
                              [ ] is old law to be omitted.
                                                                   LBD00918-01-5
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